The CBI has registered the first case in the Leave Travel Concession (LTC) scam and booked Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Rajya Sabha member Anil Kumar Sahani for allegedly siphoning off nearly Rs 9.5 lakh by using fraudulent means to claim LTC.

CBI sources said besides Sahani, an Air India customer service agent, Rubaina Akhtar, and a Lajpat Nagarbased travel operator, Air Cruise Travels, have also been named in the FIR.

Sahani is believed to have submitted claims for seven business class return tickets of Air India to Port Blair, costing nearly Rs 1.34 lakh each, in December 2012 on the basis of fake tickets and boarding passes for himself and six others.

CBI officials at MP Anil
Kumar Sahani's house
in Muzaffarpur

Sources said a CBI team went to the Rajya Sabha secretariat and collected relevant records in connection with the scam.